5 Reasons Why You Need a Hobby – and Why Your Boss Should Support You
Do you have a hobby? What do you do? If not, here are five reasons you should consider in investing in one.
Posts Tagged: creativity
How to Create Intentional Innovation
What if you found out your notions of creativity aren’t true? What if you could actually learn how to be more creative? TrackMaven’s CEO explains how.
Finding the Elusive Third Path Through Conflict
Duality creates binary problems in a world whose outer edges extend well beyond the boundaries that duality offers. We can’t find solutions with our dualistic thinking. We can only create more problems. That’s why we need a third path.
5 Reasons Everyone Should Have a Hobby
What we do outside of work can often attribute to our success at work. Being in public service is extremely rewarding in many ways but I do not have to tell you that it comes with its stresses too. Maintaining a healthy level of stress has many positive benefits but there is a thin lineRead… Read more »
The Secret Lives of Public Servants
The Secret Lives of Public Servants is a three-episode documentary web series that explores the creative hobbies of public service workers outside the 9-5. Each episode profiles a different public servant and looks at what they do for their day jobs and then what they do in their “secret life”.
Creativity in Government: Find Your Inner Genius
The public sector will never have the “no strings attached” freedom of a genius grant. But finding solutions to increasingly complex challenges demands that we foster conditions for dynamic, creative approaches to today’s problems.
The Difference Between Nonconformity and Creativity
In my last post, we explored the idea that tapping into one’s creative mind can become easier with practice. Practicing something is straightforward- if one knows what to do. But what if we aren’t in touch with our inner selves, and we don’t know what it means to be creative?
Creativity: Easier Every Time
Some things never get easier. The first moment of getting into a cold swimming pool. Resisting the box of donuts lurking in the office break room on a Friday morning. Dealing with difficult people. But some things do, and zoning into your creative mind is one of them. So next time you feel like there’s… Read more »
Empathy. It’s Professional.
Good working relationships are motivated by empathy. Boost creativity and enhance success at negotiating by becoming more “you-conscious.”
The Pressing Case for Driving Innovation in Government
We need new criteria in government job circles. We must look for and reward innovative thinkers and realize that performance is not a zero-sum game. We must look for ways to engage in continual learning on the job, recognizing that this is a key component of innovation and creativity.